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Byline: David DeNicolo
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M aybe every beauty story should begin with Flaubert: "Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue." The creator of Madame Bovary called this his "benign mania," but he would recognize today's culture that is both obsessed with and repulsed by the surface of things. The effort to read appearances this year was most intense in politics. ...